A Vision of England: The Life and Art of Eric Ravilious Eric Ravilious, born in 1903 in Eastbourne, Sussex, was an artist whose work became inextricably linked with a romanticized yet deeply felt vision of interwar Britain. His life, though tragically cut short, produced a body of paintings, watercolors, wood engravings and designs that continue to resonate today as powerful evocations of landscape, place, and the English temperament. Ravilious wasn’t a product of formal artistic lineage; his early training was at Eastbourne School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art in London, where…